Posing on the new 12 m boat Magda XI (1928)
Legendary Norwegian boat constructor Johan Anker (1871 - 1940) posing in 1928 on board the new 12-Metre class boat Magda XI, which he had designed for businessman Alfred W.G. Larsen (the man on the right).
Both men were excellent sailors. Already in 1912 Larsen´s 12-Metre yacht Magda IX - designed by Anker - won the gold medal in the Stockholm Summer Olympics, with Anker as helmsman and Larsen among the crew. During his lifetime Larsen owned altogether thirteen 10-Metre, 12-Metre and 15-Metre boats, all of them named Magda, which was the name of his first wife.
In the early 1930s Larsen sold Magda XI (with sail number N -7) to the US, where she was renamed Cantitoe (sail number was US-7).
The only mention of her in the US I found in the New York Times August 7, 1933: "American Y.C. RUN IS LED BY CANTITOE, 12-Meter Yacht"
The International 12-Metre Association data page mentions that Cantitoe was "wrecked and buried", but does not give any date.
My restoration and colorization of the original black and white image in the National Library of Norway archive.
Posing on the new 12 m boat Magda XI (1928)
Legendary Norwegian boat constructor Johan Anker (1871 - 1940) posing in 1928 on board the new 12-Metre class boat Magda XI, which he had designed for businessman Alfred W.G. Larsen (the man on the right).
Both men were excellent sailors. Already in 1912 Larsen´s 12-Metre yacht Magda IX - designed by Anker - won the gold medal in the Stockholm Summer Olympics, with Anker as helmsman and Larsen among the crew. During his lifetime Larsen owned altogether thirteen 10-Metre, 12-Metre and 15-Metre boats, all of them named Magda, which was the name of his first wife.
In the early 1930s Larsen sold Magda XI (with sail number N -7) to the US, where she was renamed Cantitoe (sail number was US-7).
The only mention of her in the US I found in the New York Times August 7, 1933: "American Y.C. RUN IS LED BY CANTITOE, 12-Meter Yacht"
The International 12-Metre Association data page mentions that Cantitoe was "wrecked and buried", but does not give any date.
My restoration and colorization of the original black and white image in the National Library of Norway archive.